Angela McGann from Cascade Voice Academy (formerly Issaquah Voice Studio) teaches voice lessons to kids, teens, and adults from Issaquah, Sammamish, Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, and the Greater Eastside Area of Seattle.
ANGELA MCGANN
"My passion is teaching students a love of music that will last forever while building confidence that will carry them through all areas of their lives."
Angela moved to this area from Massachusetts about seven years ago, where she ran her own voice studio for several years. She has a BA in classical and opera performance, from Allegheny College in PA and an MA in music education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. While getting her Masters degree, she taught voice lessons at the Chapel Hill School of Music and Joyful Noise music studio about 35 hours/ wk. She also contracted to various schools as a musical director.
Once she finished her Masters degree, she became a high school choir and drama teacher for several years in NC until her children were born. She then decided to go back to teaching voice lessons at the Chapel Hill School of Music. She has been teaching private voice lessons for over 15 years at various voice studios and her own.
Angela is trained in classical and opera, but, while in Chapel Hill, NC, she studied for several years with a healthy belting coach, and has been devoted to learning the skills to teach many CCM styles, including rock, broadway, pop, R&B, etc. By the time she left Chapel Hill, the vast majority of her students were there to study rock, pop and Broadway styles. Although, she also loves to teach singers who are interested in learning Classical music as well. Angela works with all varieties of singers, from beginners to more experienced singers, young and adult.
Angela's experience includes:
20 years experience
Attended and completed all three levels of the Shenandoah University’s The Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) Vocal Pedagogy Institute
Frequently attends various voice conferences both locally and nationally
BA in Vocal Performance
MA in Music Education
Member of the Puget Sound and National Chapter of National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)
Member of Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA)
Member of the Voice Foundation
Trained in many styles of singing
Experience working with beginner to advanced students
RACHAEL GOLD
Rachael is very excited to be teaching at Cascade Voice Academy! Rachael has lived in the PNW for most of her life, she started singing in junior high and never looked back. She graduated with her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree specializing in Musical Theatre from Central Washington University and headed straight to NYC to train at the Open Jar Studios residency program. While in New York she studied under the likes of Kate Baldwin, Jackie Presti, Stacia Fernandez, James Gray, Jeff Whiting, Joanna Gleason, Bob Cline, and many more. After a broadway stage reading and countless auditions, the venture took her back to Seattle to start a new path of writing and singing original music. Rachael is now performing around the greater Seattle area in two different bands: IVES, an original rock and roll band and V for Violet, a cover band. You can find her solo work on spotify as well. Rachael is most passionate about storytelling through music and harnessing the sound that is most authentic to the individual and she most enjoys the genres of pop, rock, musical theatre and singer/songwriter material.
DANNY GODINEZ
Danny Godinez is a professional musician based in Seattle. He is a highly sought after music educator, and is currently serving as adjunct Professor of Guitar at Shoreline Community College. He has taught music for over 25 years. His students have gone on to places like, Berklee College of Music, Portland University, and Cornish College of the Arts. He has played with Carlos Santana, Jason Mraz, and Johnny Lang. He is currently in a band with Santana's drummer, called "Michael Shrieve's Spellbinder". He currently holds residency at The Owl 'n Thistle in Seattle, where he invites his students to open his shows there.
CJ LORENTZ
CJ is stoked to be teaching with Cascade Voice Academy in his native state Washington! He is an actor, vocalist, songwriter, musician, and voice coach with training from Central Washington University, where he obtained a BFA in Musical Theatre. He moved to Seattle for his first professional contract, on the west side, in a production of Mamma Mia with the Village Theatre. CJ teaches with the Village Theater’s Kidstage and booked his debut contract as a performer at the prestigious 5th Avenue Theater. He is a lifelong learner and is always on the path of exploring new skills. CJ looks forward to sharing what his authentic human experience is like through effective storytelling, collaboration, and music. He aims to help others discover the voice they already have, to express themselves as a continual working piece of art that is never truly finished. Cj has twelve years of speech-level private voice training. He has toured with the 5th Avenue’s ETC and taught MT at Kidstage. He is currently writing a new musical, writing new music, and will be performing with the 5th Avenue Theater once more in Spring Awakening, in the spring!